Koobazaur

Also, it may useful to check out some online video lectures from big name universities to get a "feel" for what sitting in a given class might be. Not the same as attending the class, but another tool in exploring your major. 

Well I announced my game Postmortem, where you play as death incarnate tasked to claim one life at a charity gala event, and literally the next day RPS had a big release article about Death Inc. which... also makes you play as death. The two games are very different, but the basic idea is so close it gave me that brief sinking "well there goes the spotlight" feeling  

But I continued on and am a release away from official Beta now, getting ready to set my final release date. Knowing my luck, tho, it will probably end up being... the day before Death Inc comes out hehe.

I follow a few dev blogs specific to particular games or game design sucha as:

Radiator DevBlog

Gaslamp Games 

Tom Francis (Gunpoint)

Gamasutra 

 

General Gaming / non-dev blogs:

Augmented Visions

Sneaky Bastards (focus on stealth games like Thief or Deus Ex)

 

Then there's video-blogs

Zero Punctuation (witty, 5min reviews of games, but Yatzee also has a blog section I believe)

Jimquisition (game news & opinions)

Extra Credit (tons of game-design and industry thoughts)

Total Biscuit (Let's Plays, Game News, Opinions etc.)

Angry Video Game Nerd (mostly comedy reviews of older gamer but also has other stuff)

Spoony Experiment (game reviews / thoughts / culture

 

And for the heck of it, food industry / food politics ones I follow:

Fooducate

Weighty Matters 

Food Wishes (awesome video recipes with a very charismatic host)

 

Curious to see other replies, would definitely like to extend my list as well (particularily with video design/industry/news blogs)

Money

Hmm I looked at the options and Trello seems to be the closest, but nothing quite seems to do what I want:

* Trello - good for creating and managing tasks BUT majorly lacks in terms of task customiziation (no tags, only 6 pre-defined labels, no custom fields, no time estimates)
* ChilliProject / Redmine / Track / Mantis - lacking in terms of timelining, cumbersome to use for non-coders, and requires Ruby
* PivotalTracker - almost exactly what I need, except it automatically splits tasks into sprints and does not support separate departments (a sprint includes ALL tasks even if they are done by different people at different velocities)
* GanntProject - nice graphic capabilities but becomes really cumbersome with many tasks spread across a long timeline (numerous weeks/sprints). Plus, mainly desktop non-collaborative solution
* Jira + Grasshopper - looks good but also isn't free so holding off on that for the time being. I got a webserver but couldnt host their flat-fee solution myself (no spare PC that can run reliable 24/7).

I think I'll stick to Trello for the time being and as the needs grow maybe consider Jira?